Zilker Park with James

Our friends Angie, Jeff and James are in town. We had fun hanging out with them at Zilker Park this afternoon.

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Breakfast With Grackles

Zoe and I had breakfast while Nikki went swimming on Friday morning. Some grackles showed up and we shared our muffin (poppy seed, carrot, golden raisin, walnut).

Zoe's Sketch

I'm very impressed with Zoe's sketch, she did this completely on her own!

Busy Weekend

Some photos we took this weekend. We fed some peacocks, kayaked and checked out the Trail of Lights.

Barton Creek Greenbelt

We hiked around the Barton Creek Greenbelt this morning. I think this is part of the hill country of Texas, not sure, but we definitely were up on some hills.

Its a girl!!!!!

Here are ultrasound photos of our new daughter. Zoe says she wants to have a tea party with her little sister. We are thinking of names right now. Yea!

Rick Steeves

I went to see Rick Steves speak at a local bookstore. He host a travel show on PBS that Ive watched for years. It was great to watch him speak, he is very political when he is off camera.

He just finished a show about Iran. He said the reason he did this show is to try and show the west what the people of Iran are really like. The corporate media has been so busy dehumanizing Iran, that he wanted a chance to show how they (the people of Iran) are just people, like us, just trying to live their life. We shouldn't confuse the people with the policies of their government.

Peacocks in the Park

We went to Mayfield park here in Austin to check out the wild peacocks that roam around. They have lived there since the early 1900s.

Big Smile!!!!!

Nikki at 18 weeks pregnant

We should find out in a couple of weeks the sex of the baby. Then we can start figuring out names. Nikki is doing very well.

Buddies and Bellies

This is the 200th post for SkipNikZ!

Here are a couple of photos, one of Zoe and her buddy Darlene.  We met Darlenes parents at The Spider House here in Austin. The other photo is Nikki and her growing belly, taken at our front door.

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Barton Springs

Here are some photos from Barton Springs this morning. There are fish, crawdads, salamanders and loons swimming around with the people in this great swimming area. The water is feed from an underground spring.

Zoe grooving with some pita

Dia de Los Muertos

We went to Dia de Los Muertos show here in Austin, lots of fun. Zoe liked the big "Halloween puppets".

Happy Halloween!

Some photos of trick-or-treating tonight

Its fall!

Here are some cute photos of Zoe bundled up this morning, it was in the 60s.

Japanese Gardens

We went to the Japanese Gardens at the Zilker Botanical Garden this morning.  Here are some photos.

We voted

Im glad they have early voting here in Austin. Nikki and I both voted. Looking forward to seeing what happens in November. For anyone who knows us it shouldn't be a big surprise who we voted for.

Funny Bee Story

Zoe's language is improving a lot. She is starting to put words together and we get to hear what she is thinking about, some of it is really funny.

We have shown her in the past that bees fly onto flowers and get pollen and nectar out of them to make honey, bees also seem to like to fly around Zoe a lot and we say something like "go away bee".

The other day a bee was buzzing around Zoe and she said, "Go away bee...go find a flower".

Dinoland

We took Zoe to see the dinosaurs at the Zilker Botanical Gardens this morning. She is really into dinosaurs right now so this was lots of fun.

Friday night pizza

We met some friends and had pizza at HomeSlice in South Austin Friday night. We sat outside and Zoe and her friend Darlene did some serious silly playing, at one point the were pretending to be dogs walking down the sidewalk. I like this photo I took of Zoe. 

First belly photo

Nikki went to her first full midwife appointment yesterday. They listened to the heartbeat, called me on the phone and Zoe and I listen to it also. Heartbeat is strong and healthy. The baby is due in mid-April. Nikki is starting to show, our bellies are similar in Buddha-ness now. She will out-Buddha my belly real soon though.